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members. After considerable discussion
& two ballots it was back by 11 in
opposition & 5 for it & with a hope
expressed by some members, that it
should be the last effort of the kind
especially as it had been decided at
a former meeting upon no plea what
ever to increase the size of society
the home heard various rumours
since this meeting that some four
or five members intend to resign
at our next meeting; they all being
gentlemen & feeling their Club all
sufficient for their needs, in the way
not only of sociability but Horticulture
We are inclined to doubt this, as
surely no member of the Home Interest
can be so selfish in as to deny his wife
one afternoon in each month, specially
when she does not care to go without him.
The chip basket was very nearly